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WAR REQUIEM

Derek Jarman | 92 min | United Kingdom | 1989

Inspired by composer Benjamin Britten’s titular 1963 oratorio and the WW1 poetry of Wilfred Owen, Jarman’s dazzlingly complex decoupage of sound and image moves nimbly between past and present while offering a stark denunciation of militarism, with the figure of the Old Soldier (Laurence Olivier) the silent sentinel that sees all.


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Stream CARAVAGGIO at homeA brazenly anachronistic and sensual imagining of the life of Renaissance renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and one of the finest British films of the 1980s.

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